From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 18:34:29 MDT
On Fri, 30 May 2003 19:30:02 EDT, <Spudboy100@aol.com> wrote:
> I was hoping this will lead to vastly improved processes, for producing
> something futuristic; like "yeast steaks" - yeast that has the
> characteristics of beef, chicken, lamb, or fish, fruits etc. That way, no
> animals need be slaughtered, or fruits wouldn't depend on warm weather
> and the like. If your steak came from yeast or fungus we could mass
> produce food that people could enjoy, and produce it in hundreds of times
> the volume that it is currently raised.
Chocolate--*that's* an extremely environmentally-sensitive crop. Suddenly
the price goes through the floor, and so does the economy of Cote
d'Ivoire... and the youth obesity epidemic perhaps accelerates.
-- I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization. Sometimes I forget.
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